Hi, I have a problem trying to build a kernel. It appears that make menuconfig starts to loop - after writing "Preparing scripts: functions, parsing ...done." This is 2.4.23, jfs114, gcc3.3.2. What stuns me is - on this system I have already built 2.4.23, and it is running just fine. The second build is for a different target system, and the sourcetree is (obviously) in a different directory. 1. /usr/src/linux (symlink to linux-2.4.23) - no problems. 2. /data1/linux (symlink to linux-2.4.23) - loops. Filesystem in both cases is JFS, /data1 is mountpoint for /dev/hda4 whereas /dev/hda1 is root. This is a SuSE9.0 system - I have never seen this behaviour before on any previous SuSE system. I've straced the 'make menuconfig' and it is quite clearly looping. Can anyone point me in the right direction or help me try to solve this?? I'm not at all certain this has anything to do with SuSE9.0, but just in case. thanks, Per Jessen, Zurich http://www.dansklisten.org